Ending Global Poverty Begins with Women's Rights

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Even It Up

This is our idea of market balance

Campaign with us to close the gap between the rich and the rest and help advance women’s rights worldwide.

Today just 8 men have the same wealth as the poorest half of the planet. It is clear that a new economic model is needed to build a world where the economy works for everyone, not just the wealthy elite. Campaign with us to close the gap between the rich and the rest and help advance women’s rights worldwide.

Demand an economy that works for women

Our government can help reduce inequality by building a new, more human, economic model. It can start now with a Federal Budget that:

Encourages living wages in Canada, holds Canadian companies accountable abroad, and puts an end to the global race to the bottom on taxation and wages.

Closes the gender pay gap and make sure women are treated fairly at work – no matter where they live or what job they do.

Invests in public services, like child care and elder care, that reduce and redistribute women’s unpaid care work.

Increases the aid budget to tackle global poverty and advance women's rights around the world.

► Tell our government to make work paid, equal and valued for women. Sign petition now.

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Know the people

Elizabeth Wayua Nathaniel lives in a slum in Nairobi, Kenya. She is a domestic worker and makes $44 a month cleaning other people’s homes. She is often paid late, and this makes it hard for her to pay her daughter’s school fees.

"What I think should be done to try and bridge the gap between the rich and the poor is educating people of their rights. Domestic workers like me don’t get the pay they merit because they don’t know their rights." – Elizabeth, Domestic Worker